Scientists tested a method to thicken Arctic sea ice by pumping seawater. This process created a thicker and more reflective ...

Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question ...

Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the ...

A potentially explosive political tussle is playing out on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. And some fear the ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer ...

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The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

Permafrost usually hits the news as a hazard; a planetary risk. When this ice-rich ground thaws, it damages roads and ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Nearly all of the Arctic’s sea ice could melt by the summer of 2027, a group of international scientists has warned. “The climate models show that unless we can stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius globally ...

Operating beneath thick Arctic ice demands exceptional navigation, endurance, and precision. This footage shows the Royal ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...